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Open Book Club

Island Book's open book club meets the last Thursday of every month at 7:30pm. Our staff facilitator chooses both fiction and nonfiction titles. All are welcome to attend. This month's choice is The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak.

The story of Jozef Vinich,
who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an
impoverished shepherd's life in rural Austria-Hungary. When World War One comes, Jozef joins his adopted
brother as a sharpshooter in the Kaiser's army, surviving a perilous trek
across the frozen Italian Alps and capture by a victorious enemy. A stirring
tale of brotherhood, coming-of-age, and survival, that was inspired by the author's
own family history, this novel evokes a time when Czechs, Slovaks, Austrians,
and Germans fought on the same side while divided by language, ethnicity, and
social class in the most brutal war to date. It is also a poignant tale of
fathers and sons, addressing the great immigration to America and the desire to live the American dream amidst the
unfolding tragedy in Europe.

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